Just as planned.
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Yet another reason why I do not buy Samsung appliances.
Aside from that, who the fuck needs a screen on their fucking fridge?
Pretty easy to just not buy this complete garbage.
I just don’t see the point of having a screen on a fridge or microwave or coffee maker.
If I want a screen for recipes, and that’s a big, big if, I’d have one of those Alexa Show’s or even better just use the dang smart screen in my pocket.
The promise was to integrate your contents of the fridge with some kind of smarts that let you know when your milk was going to expire and to suggest you buy more. The reality is that is dumb because it takes more effort to maintain that digital list than just noting "I need to buy milk". And now it's used for advertising space because it has no other real purpose.
I have a tablet sized easel I use for recipes. Well, I use the tablet, then put it on the easel. Why the hell do I want to walk over to the fridge to look at the recipe when all my stuff is already on the counter??
Can I flash Linux to my counter and turn it in to a torrent box?
“I dunno it came like that!” 😆
❌torrents the counter
✔️torrents in the counter
And you can say the counter seeds too 😉
With these devices we are mostly safe for now, unless this is successful and Samsung sees worthwhile profit that justifies the added design and parts costs. This may well be the case and at some point in the future it may be that they find a reason to put a screen on literally everything you own as an excuse to have a vehicle for ad delivery
Hopefully this will be a “name brand products” issue though and cheap no name barebones toasters or whatever will always exist (though with the risk of potential hazardous build quality). What a wonderful future we’ve created.
I will hand-mine books of mica and wrap nichrome wire around them and plug it directly into the wall like my forefathers did before I install a toaster with a screen in my home.
Actually, though probably physically dangerous, a thriving DIY appliance community to bypass the "screen in everything" future might be kinda fun.
You mean you don’t want a $300 toaster with a screen that connects to WiFi so it can show you your own pictures and tell you the weather and I don’t fucking know, schedule toasting? And probably inevitably not work because core functionality is server sided and when they inevitably fail or at least sunset the product bc no one but rich people who flex their cash are buying this dumb shit you’re left with a brick because they turned the servers off
It’s also $100 more expensive at Williams Sonoma if you really want to flex your cash
But haven't you heard!?! It's a REVOLUTION!
I will simply turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Are you even a real connected-appliance enthusiatst when you didn't even link the R180 connect PLUS https://revcook.com/products/r180-connect-plus-smart-toaster Which is $100 more and seems to be exactly the same, with the addition of 22 more useless "bread profiles"
I remember seeing this thing a while ago and scoffing, but actually reading it now, it's even more absurd. "Our most customizable toasting experience"... Ugh.
Lmao that’s probably why the Williams Sonoma listing was $100 more (hopefully)
But it has InstaGLO® 2.0 technology, reaching full heat in seconds, searing the bread without drying it, so it's crispy on the outside, yet soft and delicious on the inside!
What toaster doesn’t reach full temp in seconds?? Is that not an inherent feature of nichrome? Looking further it appears to be nichrome bonded to a substrate (likely mica/ceramic) to create a heating “plate” which likely does speed things up a bit but not dramatically so. Further variations on this style of heating can be found in bougie toasters (breville, commercial models) that are otherwise normal toasters (though breville loves to add motors and shit because god forbid your toast not look like Han Solo slowly being lowered into the carbonite chamber every morning)
Until other large manufacturers follow suite, like what happened with TVs.
Right, and it's easy to just laugh at the people sill enough to buy them, today. But make no mistake, if it makes money, all fridges will be sold with ad screens. Just like it's pretty much impossible to buy a large, living room TV that isnt a glorified advertising board. What are we going to do then? Just not buy fridges any more?
If I want my fridge enshittified I'll bag up my own poop and put it in the freezer, thankyouverymuch
Didn't George Carlin have a bit about how all marketing people should just kill themselves?
That's a Bill Hicks bit 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY
Shoot, I’m too poor for this. I’ll have to tape up some ads on mine
My in-laws have had an utterly terrible experience with Samsung kitchen appliances.
Not because of tech, mind you, but because they're shitty and break down. Don't buy Samsung.
There are so many options for fridges that don't have any tech in them at all. This is so easy to avoid.
Yeah we were just in the market a year or so ago and I thought this was cool for about a second before I realized what this would be used for. It's just advertising straight into your kitchen, as you are grabbing food. It's the perfect place for them to advertise. Any lack of advertisements was always going to be temporary.
Plus honestly what is the actual use for it? Just put a tablet on the counter if you want a screen in there
Maybe it did not have plans to put ads on every last home appliance, but when the interviewer gave them the idea, they started making all of the plans forehead tap
I feel for those who got duped on their fridge. I couldn't find an entry for this incident, yet, on https://consumerrights.wiki/Samsung so I'll sit down and try my best to write it up.
Here's how we fix a society that's already drowning in advertising .. more advertising.
Russell Howcroft would think that this was the Duck's Nuts!
I swear sometimes that at this point all we produce as a country is ads. People in marketing mock their customers (source: was in marketing to make better wages than journalism for less than a year) and think they're doing the lord's work because of their salaries.
Can't wait until I have to watch a 4 minutes unskippable ad before being able to eat!
If you really wanna know what is in your fridge without opening the door, just buy one of those fancy glass door fridges.
Shocked that they haven't already had ads.
Has anyone used a smart fridge? I'm struggling to think of what features I'd actually end up using.
Had to go fridge shopping recently, and looked at them in the stores. The only feature I've seen that is semi-useful is seeing what is inside without opening the door. 100% not worth the cost or ads. Plus the more complicated the extras, the more things that can go wrong. Wound up with a fridge that doesn't even have an in door water dispenser and it is great
What if you wanted to program your toasting levels on your smart toaster, but didn’t want to cross the kitchen?
The revolution will not be displayed on your refrigerator. The revolution will not have Terms of Service and a Privacy Notice. The revolution will not receive over the air updates.
The revolution will not be advertised.
Next stop: subscription for your fridge to work 24/7 with premium cold air. It will also have a free tier, but if the fridge is inactive (you don't open the door) for more than 1 hour, it turns off until your next visit.

It's only a matter of time... 😭
I currently stand 5-10feet back from the gas pump that trys to force me to listen to garbage ads... never will I buy a fridge that has a tv
I never return to those stations and I leave a review so others know theyll be forced ads
Never have I wanted to sabotage something so badly...
Am I the only one that has their ears hurt by the excessive volume of the ads? I can't go back because they hurt. It's abnoxious.
8 buttons (4 left and 4 right), second from the top on the right side is the mute button
I do the same, but I just pull about 5-10 feet past the pump so it's not even in my line of site.
I guess someone could be excused before. But anyone who buys one of these disasters from this point forward gets what they deserve. Maybe when it breaks in 6 months they’ll switch to a different brand with no screens.
We’re planning on replacing most of our appliances in 2026. Samsung won’t be any of them. And I definitely won’t get anything with a screen.
A not very epic poem about smart appliance FOMO, to be sung to a tune played on the world's smallest violin
I'm devastated my fridge is old and does nothing
but keep my food cold.
I feel so poor and left out,
having no access to these value-strengthening promotions and curated advertisements.
My dumb fridge just
stands in a corner of the kitchen, not talking to me!
I feel so alone among my silent appliances.
Please speak to me washing machine
say something sweet space heater
profess your undying love to me dish washer
Fuck this dystopian timeline. And we’re trapped. Too late to avoid this period of human suffering and too early to leave and colonise another planet.
Just wait until the fridges keep inventory by inside cam and offers services like shopping lists and targeted ads.
“Hi, I noticed your ice cream will be gone tonight, would you like to have some delivered before?. There is a coupon if you use Kroger’s ”
Whoever thought it to be a good idea to buy a fridge with a screen and internet conectivity honestly deserves that.
I disagree. People have the right to be naive or distracted. States should put into prison people who create harmful products. Yes, advertising is harmful to your mind, this is why huge companies pay incredible amounts for it!
I totally understand and support the sentiment of your message!
But: Basically, companies are selling what customers are buying.
In effect this means, that the people who buy this touchscreen-riddled internet-of-shitty-things stuff are the ones largely responsible that
- cars ancillary functions can't be operated without looking down any more
- microwaves have 5-level deep context menus instead of two turn-knobs and a button
- most stoves have touch sensitive surfaces that run amok as soon as some liquid spills
- my solar panels inverter now has an shitty privacy compromising phone app instead a serial hardware port
.
I hate that development and this is the reason why I welcome the news that some of the people who are responsible for why it is spreading, now have the opportunity to perhaps learn one of the reason why it sucks the hard way. Maybe it has a positive effect.
People do not naturally "want" a microwave with a 5-level deep menu. This "want" is carefully engineered through decades of advertising, marketing, and cultural narrative that equates "new" with "better," "connected" with "smart," and "touchscreen" with "premium." The desire is not organic; it is cultivated. Companies spend billions not just responding to demand, but actively creating it.
People often buy these products due to social pressure, the fear of being left behind, or the promise of convenience sold to them. The choice is rarely between a simple knob and a complex touchscreen; it's increasingly between a complex touchscreen and nothing, as the former replaces the latter in the market. This is not consumer sovereignty; it's a forced march.
The relationship between a massive multinational corporation and an individual consumer is not an equal negotiation. The corporation has vastly more information, resources, and power to shape the terms of the transaction. They design products for their benefit (planned obsolescence, data harvesting, proprietary lock-in), not for the user's benefit (longevity, repairability, intuitive use).
This is true. Until it isn't any more and the cycle breaks again.
It just needs one stylish brand grasping the chance and offer a simple, user centric product it manages to market as desirable.
Consider what Apple did at the end of the 00s to the oligarchical structured phone market that was only selling crappy, complicated phones with features mainly dictated by network providers at the time.
Sure, nowadays Apple is on the crappy product side again, together with most Android manufacturers. Guess that is just the nature of such enshitification cycles...
Another example are the most popular WIFI routers in my country (FritzBox. Yes the name is real...). Instead of selling cheap trash with crappy update support as was common 20 years ago, they listened to their customers and offered powerful, but easy to operate alternatives with supreme support. People are happy. Although today they almost have a monopoly, and the enhitification cycle may soon restart again...
So, I won't share your depressing view. Buyers have power, and markets work. Sometimes it just takes time and a market niche to be opening and gaining popularity. Like high-end fridges without IoT-crap but with simple, functional controls.
That's what I need, another voice in my house complaining when we buy store brand.
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